preseeding
See also: preceding
English
Adjective
preseeding (not comparable)
- Before seeding.
- 2002, Brian H. Ross, Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, page 342
- The effects of seeding are assessed by comparing preseeding (or unseeded) estimates to the postseeding estimates.
- 2002, Brian H. Ross, Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, page 342
Verb
preseeding
- present participle of preseed
- Misspelling of preceding.
Noun
preseeding (plural preseedings)
- (computing) a way to set answers to questions asked during the installation process, without having to manually enter the answers while the installation is running.
- 2004, Joey Hess, "d-i preseed file version 0.1", reprinted in Frank Ronneburg, 2005, Debian GNU/ Linux Anwenderhandbuch[1],
- Some parts of the installation process cannot be automated using some forms of preseeding, because the questions are asked before the preseed file is loaded.
- 2005, Martin F. Krafft, The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques[2], →ISBN, page 426:
- In addition to the preseed option, the boot command will then be longer than 100 characters, which defeats the purpose of preseeding -- a manual installation of Debian requires only twelve keystrokes before you are prompted for the root password.
- 2005: Frank Ronneburg, Debian GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch für Einsteiger, Umsteiger und Fortgeschrittene, page 124 (Pearson Education; ISBN 978‒3‒8273‒2303‒3)
- This first command is run as early as possible, just after preseeding is read.
- 2008, "etch-n-half netboot problems", Unix Linux Forum, Aug 18
- I'm using preseeding over network(PXE).
- 2004, Joey Hess, "d-i preseed file version 0.1", reprinted in Frank Ronneburg, 2005, Debian GNU/ Linux Anwenderhandbuch[1],